Chap. 361.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to requir
all owners, proprietors, superintendents, or conductors of a sawmill or othe:
manufacturing plant, and other persons who have dug wells or pits on certais
premises after the passage of this act, to fill the same after their abandon
ment; and also to require the owners of such premises to see that sucl
wells or pits have been properly filled, approved March 20, 1922.

[H B 437)

Approved March 31, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to require all owners, proprietors, superintendents or
conductors of a sawmill or other manufacturing plant, or other persons
who have dug wells or pits on certain premises after the passage of
this act, to fill the same after their abandonment; and also to require
the owners of such premises to see that such wells or pits have been
properly filled, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 1. It shall be the duty of all owners, operators, proprietors,
superintendents or conductors of any sawmill or other manufacturing
plant, or any other person, who has caused to be dug on his own or
the land of another, any well or pit for the use of such sawmill, plant
or person, to fill such well or pit with earth so that the same shall not
be dangerous to human beings, animals or fowls at the time of or before
such mill or plant shall be removed or such well or such pit otherwise
abandoned, unless the owner or owners of the land whereon such well
or pit request in writing that such well or pit shall remain open.

Provided, however, in the case of mining operations in lieu of filling
the shaft or pit the owner or operator thereof on ceasing operations
in such shaft or pit shall securely fence the same and keep the same
at all times thereafter securely fenced.

And it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of any such saw-
mill to see that the duty aforesaid, hereby imposed upon the persons
aforesaid is properly performed. And any person violating any pro-
vision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
onviction shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.